NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Maria’s passport picture. We needed photographs for visa applications for Brazil, Kenya and Tanzania for a trip that we’re planning for August.
Nicon D700 with Nikon 85mm f1.4 lens and an on-camera flash.
Monday June 21, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – A walk in the East Village in the evening of the longest day of the year.
Leica M9 with 35mm Summichron Asph
Sunday June 20, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Dinner at Bar Boulud with some old friends and our son and daughter, who took me there for Fathers Day. This is a silly made-up holiday designed to promote greeting card sales, but I have nonetheless promoted it to our children as the most important day of the year.
Nikon D700 AND Nikon 85mm f1.4 lens.
Saturday June 19, 2010
WARREN, CONNECTICUT – Perennial boarder. We bought our house in Warren in 1987. It was a split level ranch on a cornfield. We’ve added bits and pieces to the landscape over the years – it’s a delight that our efforts finally look like mature landscape.. It would be an exaggeration to say that we’ve had a master plan, but we have pursued a general direction, leaning toward the use of native plants in naturalized settings. We’ve planted one perennial boarder, however, that’s an exception.
Leica M9 and 50mm Summilux Asph
Friday June 18, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – I spent the late afternoon stalking reflected sunlight out the window of our dining room.
Hasselblad H3D with HC 300 lens.
Thursday June 17, 2010
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – Midday found me in midtown on my way to a lunch date. Here’s one of my favorite spots, the plaza in front of the Seagram Building.
Leica M9 and 35mm Summicron Asph.
Wednesday June 16, 2010
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – Up early to prepare for meetings, I made this panorama of sunrise over Boston harbor. I’ve written elsewhere that I don’t have much use for photographs of sunrises and sunsets, They do, after all, happen every day: its unlikely that I or anyone else is going to create great or unusual work by pointing a camera east in the early morning. I doubt that any artist since Joseph Mallord William Turner has made much of a contribution to our understanding or appreciation of sunrises and sunsets. I’ve pasted a copy of Turner’s Sunrise with Sea Monsters below.
One also has to consider the burden at this time of year of getting up very early to photograph a sunrise: sunrise today in Boston was at 5:06. That’s actually why I’ve posted a sunrise – I had a very busy day in Boston so I got up early to capture my image for the day. The first frame of this image was time stamped by the camera as 10:00:50 because I set the clock in all of my cameras to UTC so I don’t have to worry about whether they are on correct local time when I travel.
Leica M9 plus 35mm Summicron Asph.
